Childhood

Busch’s
first driving lessons came at the age of 6 when he drove around the
cul-de-sac of his family’s Las
Vegas home in a makeshift go-kart. Although he was too small to reach
the throttle, Busch still was able to pick up the basics from his
father Tom, who controlled the gas pedal as his young son steered
the kart. Throughout his childhood, Busch spent many hours as an
apprentice to his father and older brother Kurt in the family
garage learning to build and repair race cars. By the age of 10, he
was a full-fledged mechanic and served as crew
chief of his older brother’s dwarf car team.

In 1998, shortly after his 13th birthday, Busch’s driving career
officially began. From 1999 through 2001, Busch earned more
than 65 wins in legends cars as he racked up two track
championships at Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s “Bullring” before moving to late models. He captured 10 victories in
late model competition at the Bullring in 2001.

Early career

At the age of 16, Busch competed in the NASCARCraftsman
Truck Series for Roush Racing as a
replacement after the team's two drivers were released midway in
the 2001 season. He led in his second race at Chicago Motor
Speedway and was about to win the race, until 12 laps to go
when he ran out of gas. He earned two top-10 finishes in six
starts in the #99 EldonFord F-150 in what was scheduled to be a
full-season campaign for 2002.

Busch was
the fastest in practice for a 2001 Craftsman Truck Series race at
California
Speedway in Fontana, CA, when he was ejected from the track
by CART officials because the American Racing Wheels 200 was
part of a CART weekend featuring the Marlboro 500 CART FedEx Championship
Series event. Marlboro threw Busch out of the garage because
of an interpretation of the Master Settlement Agreement of
1998, prohibiting persons under 18 years of age in participating in
events sponsored by tobacco companies. (The MSA also resulted in
the benching in 2006 of 17-year old Grand-AmKrohn Racing driver Colin Braun for three sportscar races held in
conjunction with the Indy Racing League because Marlboro sponsored
both of Penske Racing's Indy Racing League efforts. In 2008, four
full-time USAR Hooters Pro Cup drivers were banned from
participating in the Sears Auto Center 150 at the Milwaukee Mile because they were under 18, and the race was held
in conjunction with an IndyCar race with Marlboro sponsorship on
the Penske cars.)

Six weeks after the incident, NASCAR imposed a minimum age of 18
years starting in 2002 to prevent future incidents from happening
again, because Winston was the
premier series sponsor at the time. When the age requirements were
put in place, Busch switched from NASCAR to the American Speed Association (ASA)
series, a Midwest based racing series. He finished eighth in the
championship points for the ASA series.

He is often nicknamed Shrub, since he is the
younger brother of NASCAR driver Kurt
Busch and a small bush is called a shrub. He is also most
commonly referred to as Rowdy Busch after Rowdy Burns in the movie Days of Thunder, as well as Little
Busch after the TV series Lil'
Bush. Recently Mike Joy coined the
nickname Wild Thing as he is always making daring
and bold moves on the track. Busch latest nickname is The
Spider, for his tenacious driving style and the way he
preys on other drivers. Another nickname is
Daredevil."

NASCAR career

2003-2007

Kyle Busch at the March 5, 2006 race in Mexico City

Upon turning 18, Busch partnered with Hendrick Motorsports to run a
set of six NASCAR Busch Series races at selected tracks, running
the #87 Ditech.comChevrolet Monte Carlo for NEMCO Motorsports. During his seat time in
that ride, Busch finished a Busch Series career-high second in his
first NASCAR Busch Series race at the
Lowe's Motor Speedway in May 2003.

Busch's first full-time season began in 2004, as he competed in the
Lowe's car vacated by Brian Vickers,
who had moved up to the NEXTEL Cup series. Busch clinched Rookie of the Year honors in the
series, receiving his first top-10 finish of the season at the
second race in Rockingham, his first pole of the season in the
fifth race, and claimed his first victory at the Richmond
International Raceway at the Funai 250 in
May. Busch went on to claim five wins in 2004, making him the
record holder of most races won by a driver in their rookie season., and finished second to Martin Truex, Jr. in the overall points.
Busch
also qualified for six Nextel Cup races out of nine attempts in
2004 in the #84 CarquestChevrolet for Hendrick, his highest finish being
24th at California
Speedway.

After the announcement that long time Hendrick NEXTEL Cup series
driver Terry Labonte would be running
a limited schedule in 2005 and 2006, Busch was picked to take over
the #5 Kellogg Company/Carquest Auto
Parts Chevrolet Monte Carlo. He won his first career NASCAR Nextel Cup
race (now known as Sprint Cup) on September 4 in the Sony HD 250 at Fontana , driving for Rick Hendrick. At the end of
the season Busch won the 2005 Nextel Cup Rookie of the Year with 2 wins and
a 20th place points finish.. The earlier win at Fontana made Busch
eligible to become a part of the 20 NASCAR Triple Threats, a group
of drivers who have won a race in NASCAR's top three divisions. At
the time, he was the youngest-ever winner in the NASCAR Cup Series,
at 20 years, 125 days (a mark that has since been eclipsed by
current teammate Joey Logano).

In
2006, he took the
victory in the Lenox
Industrial Tools 300 at New
Hampshire International Speedway, and qualified for the Chase for the Cup during the
last race before the 2006 Chase at Richmond
International Raceway, in the Chevy
Rock & Roll 400, where he finished second after leading the
most laps. He entered the Chase for the NEXTEL Cup fourth in
Cup points. Busch started the first race of the Chase
mid-pack in the 43 car field at the New
Hampshire International Speedway but got caught up in an incident on lap four when
he made contact with #66 Best Buy Chevrolet
of Jeff Green, and knocked the
front suspension out of line, eventually spinning out and wrecking
the car.Busch followed up the next week at Dover
International Speedway with an initially strong run before an engine
failure took him out of the race.Busch then went to
the Kansas
Speedway and led
several laps before being caught for speeding on pit road and
finished in the bottom half of the top-ten. As a result, he
finished the season in tenth place in the 2006 NEXTEL Cup
standings, 448 points behind champion Jimmie Johnson. His winnings for the 2006
season sum edup to $5,537,337. Busch is currently the youngest
driver to make the NASCAR NEXTEL Chase for the Cup. He also became
the youngest pole sitter in NEXTEL Cup history.

Busch repeated his Lowe's victory in 2006 in a truck painted to
resemble the Rowdy Burns car from
Days of Thunder, in a tribute to
Bobby Hamilton (who was the stunt
driver for the character), who was in the midst of a cancer battle
which would later take his life. In addition, he ran nearly the
entire 2006 season in the
#5 Lowe's/Shop-Vac
Chevy, winning one race and finishing seventh in points despite
skipping one race.

Busch
became the first NASCAR NEXTEL Cup driver to win in NASCAR's
Car of Tomorrow at the 2007 Food City 500 at Bristol
Motor Speedway. He also scored Hendrick Motorsports their 200th NASCAR
win (in all series), and also scored Chevrolet's 600th NASCAR victory, the first by the
Chevrolet Impala since Wendell Scott's historic 1963 win in
Jacksonville, Florida. At the Aaron's 312 Busch Race at Talladega,
Busch went on a wild ride down the backstretch when he got turned
into teammate Casey Mears' car by Tony Stewart, which was similar
to the bump Brian Vickers gave to Jimmie Johnson in the 2006
UAW-Ford 500. The car spun towards the outside wall and flipped
onto its roof. The car then slid down the track and hit the turn 3
grass, flipping side over side. The car flipped a total of seven
times, but Busch walked away unscathed. In the Nextel All-Star Challenge at the
Lowe's Motor
Speedway, he and older brother Kurt
Busch got together, knocking them both out of the race.
In June of the season, Busch announced his plans to leave Hendrick
Motorsports after the 2007
season. The two sides had been working on a contract extension
but eventually agreed mutually to part ways. It was announced the
same day that Dale Earnhardt Jr.
would be replacing him at Hendrick Motorsports. However, days later
Busch stated that he had no idea he was going to be released.. It
was announced two months later, that Busch had chosen Joe Gibbs Racing for his team in the
2008 season. He
replaced J.J.Yeley in the #18
Toyota Camry, with M&M's coming over from Yates Racing as sponsor. That season, he ran
nineteen races and won four times, garnering a sixteenth-place
finish. He also made eleven starts in the #51 Flanders Beef Patties truck.

2008-Present

2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Car

Busch's tenure with Gibbs started off with leading the most laps in
the 50th Annual Daytona 500 before
finishing 4th. He led the most laps (86). He followed that with
another 4th place finish in the Auto Club
500. As a result, he took the lead in the points standings for
the first time in his career. Busch led 173 of the 325 laps and won the
Kobalt Tools 500 at the Atlanta
Motor Speedway. It was the 5th career win for Busch, and
the first Sprint Cup victory for Toyota.
Busch had a career-high eight wins and twenty-one top-tens that
season. Busch's hopes for his first championship
were dashed by two consecutive DNF's at Loudon and Dover, wiping out his 20 point lead and dropping him to
12th in points. However, Busch ralled back with top fives
and gained two more spots to close out his first season with JGR
10th in points.

On August
24 at Bristol
Motor Speedway, Carl Edwards tapped Busch's rear bumper on lap
470/500 to take the lead Busch had owned for most of the
race. After the race, Busch pulled alongside to bump and
smash into Edwards repeatedly, to "let him know I didn't appreciate
the way he passed me." Edwards responded by spinning out Busch.
Busch was called to the hauler after the incident. The following
week, NASCAR announced that both Edwards and Busch were being
placed on probation for the off-track argument.

On February 12, Busch won the second Gatorade Duel at Daytona. This
was the first qualifying race win for Busch, allowing him to start
fourth in the 51st Daytona 500. Busch led 88 laps, leading the most
for the second year in a row. However, he was taken out on lap 125
during the big one when Dale
Earnhardt Jr. turned into Brian
Vickers' car, starting a chain reaction crash that sent Vickers
into Busch's car, wrecking it, and several other lead lap cars. The
following week, Busch made NASCAR history,
becoming the first person in the history of the sport to win races
in two of NASCAR's touring series in the same day by winning the
San Bernardino County 200
in the afternoon and the Stater
Brothers 300 in the evening. The next week, he won the 2009 Shelby 427 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in his hometown. After the race, he and his
brother exchanged a long, passionate hug, perhaps signaling the end
of their feud. Darrell Waltrip was quoted as saying it was the
"sweetest thing he had ever seen". [111013] He was the first to win three Cup
races in 2009, collecting his third win at Richmond
International Raceway. By winning Richmond, Busch joined Cale Yarborough as the only drivers to win
on their birthday.

Busch was involved in a violent wreck at the end of the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona. While leading on the
final lap, only yards from the finish line, Tony Stewart and Busch made contact, sending
Busch spinning hard into the outside wall, nearly flipping over,
and then being hit by Kasey Kahne,
sending the car up on its nose. Busch took another hard hit in the
driver's side from teammate Joey Logano
before spinning to a stop in the infield. Stewart won the
race.

Busch's 2009
season in the newly-renamed Camping World Truck Series started off
much like the 2008 season had. Finishing second in the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at
Daytona to Todd Bodine, as they
had finished in 2008, Busch then dominated the San Bernardino County 200 a week
later at Auto Club
Speedway, winning the pole and leading 95 of 100
laps. Bodine finished second - again, the same as the two
had finished in this race the year before. The following race,
the American Commercial
Lines 200 at Atlanta, Busch again won the pole, and overcame an
ill-handling truck as well as transmission problems to take the
lead in the closing laps. Busch was able to hold off
Kevin Harvick to win the race for the
second year in a row. It was his fourth win in five Truck Series
starts at Atlanta. Busch nealy won the 2009 Coke Zero 400 but turned into Tony
Stewart's fender, sending him airborne and then into a pack of
cars, nearly flipping. This mistake caused him to miss the Chase.
Kyle finshed 5th at Richmond, but he failed to make the Chase for
the Cup. Brian Vickers would get the
last spot (12th).

Busch will also run full-time in the Nationwide Series in 2009,
with NOS and Z-Line sponsoring his car with New Balance and Pizza
Ranch.

At the O'Reilly Challenge, ESPN broadcaster Rusty Wallace predicted that Busch would lead
180 laps at Texas. This proved to be near-accurate, as Busch led
179 laps and won.

Busch's name has been mentioned in consideration for a seat with
USF1 in their maiden season of Formula One in
2010. They are hoping to hire young American talent as the only
American team in F1.On November 21,2009 Kyle Busch won his first
Nascar Championship in 2009 while in the Nationwide Series.

2009 Results

Sprint Cup Series

2009 PreSeason Races

#

Date

Race

Track

Start

Finish

Rank

Behind

02/07/2009

Budweiser Shootout

Daytona International Speedway

10th

10th

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--

02/12/2009

Gatorade Duel - Race 2

Daytona International Speedway

8th

1st

--

--

2009 Regular Season - Races 1 -
26

#

Date

Race

Track

Start

Finish

Rank

Behind

1

02/15/2009

Daytona 500

Daytona International Speedway

4th

41st

38th

-140

2

02/22/2009

Auto Club 500

Auto Club Speedway

10th

3rd

18th

-170

3

03/01/2009

Shelby 427

Las Vegas Motor Speedway

1st

1st

6th

-54

4

03/08/2009

Kobalt Tools 500

Atlanta Motor Speedway

9th

18th

7th

-120

5

03/22/2009

Food City 500

Bristol Motor Speedway

19th

1st

4th

-85

6

03/28/2009

Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500

Martinsville Speedway

4th

24th

6th

-159

7

04/05/2009

Samsung 500

Texas Motor Speedway

8th

18th

7th

-240

8

04/18/2009

Subway Fresh Fit 500

Phoenix International Raceway

2nd

17th

7th

-216

9

04/26/2009

Aaron's 499

Talladega Superspeedway

23rd

25th

6th

-175

10

05/02/2009

Crown Royal presents the Russell Friedman 400

Richmond International Raceway

14th

1st

5th

-127

11

05/09/2009

Southern 500

Darlington Raceway

14th

34th

7th

-221

05/16/2009

Sprint All-Star Race

Lowe's Motor Speedway

13th

7th

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--

12

05/24/2009

Coca-Cola 600

Lowe's Motor Speedway

2nd

6th

6th

-182

13

05/31/2009

Autism Speaks 400

Dover International Speedway

6th

23rd

6th

-219

14

06/07/2009

Pocono 500

Pocono Raceway

6th

22nd

9th

-312

15

06/14/2009

LifeLock 400

Michigan International Speedway

2nd

13th

9th

-329

16

06/21/2009

Toyota/Save Mart 350

Infineon Raceway

2nd

22nd

9th

-402

17

06/28/2009

Lenox Industrial Tools 301

New Hampshire Motor Speedway

9th

7th

8th

-416

18

07/04/2009

Coke Zero 400

Daytona International Speedway

8th

14th

8th

-485

19

07/11/2009

LifeLock.com 400

Chicagoland Speedway

6th

33rd

10th

-586

20

07/26/2009

Allstate 400 at the Brickyard

Indianapolis Motor Speedway

20th

38th

14th

-707

21

08/03/2009

Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500

Pocono Raceway

14th

16th

13th

-726

22

08/10/2009

Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen

Watkins Glen International

8th

4th

13th

-756

23

8/17/2009

Carfax 400

Michigan International Raceway

39th

23th

15th

-779

24

8/24/2009

Sharpie 500

Bristol Motor Speedway

15th

1st

13th

-653

25

9/06/2009

Pep Boys Auto 500

Atlanta Motor Speedway

5th

13th

14th

-654

26

9/12/2009

Chevy Rock & Roll 400

Richmond International Raceway

8th

5th

13th

-1845

Blue means the starting position
based on 2009 owner points at the time.

Green means the driver had to move
to the back of the field due to an engine change or a backup
car.

Nationwide Series

2009 Season - Races 1 - 35

#

Date

Race

Track

Start

Finish

Rank

Behind

1

02/14/2009

Camping World 300

Daytona International Speedway

13th

4th

4th

-30

2

02/21/2009

Stater Brothers 300

Auto Club Speedway

2nd

1st

1st

+20

3

02/28/2009

Sam's Town 300

Las Vegas Motor Speedway

2nd

39th

5th

-109

4

03/21/2009

Scotts Turf Builder 300

Bristol Motor Speedway

4th

6th

3rd

-124

5

04/04/2009

O'Reilly 300

Texas Motor Speedway

1st

1st

2nd

-38

6

04/11/2009

Pepsi 300

Nashville Superspeedway

4th

2nd

2nd

-23

7

04/17/2009

Bashas' Supermarkets 200

Phoenix International Raceway

5th

10th

1st

+47

8

04/25/2009

Aaron's 312

Talladega Superspeedway

9th

10th

1st

+62

9

05/01/2009

Lipton Tea 250

Richmond International Raceway

3rd

1st

1st

+82

10

05/08/2009

Diamond Hill Plywood 200

Darlington Raceway

1st

16th

1st

+37

11

05/23/2009

Carquest Auto Parts 300

Lowe's Motor Speedway

2nd

3rd

1st

+73

12

05/30/2009

Heluva Good! 200

Dover International Speedway

3rd

17th

1st

+40

13

06/06/2009

Federated Auto Parts 300

Nashville Superspeedway

1st

1st

1st

+65

14

06/13/2009

Meijer 300

Kentucky Speedway

2nd

2nd

1st

+137

15

06/20/2009

NorthernTool.com 250

Milwaukee Mile

10th

2nd

1st

+127

16

06/27/2009

Camping World RV Sales 200

New Hampshire Motor Speedway

9th

1st

1st

+162

17

07/03/2009

Subway Jalapeño 250

Daytona International Speedway

19th

2nd

1st

+172

18

07/10/2009

Dollar General 300

Chicagoland Speedway

6th

2nd

1st

+192

19

07/18/2009

Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250

Gateway International Raceway

9th

1st

1st

+212

20

07/25/2009

Kroger 200

O'Reilly Raceway Park

41st

2nd

1st

+192

21

08/01/2009

U.S. Cellular 250

Iowa Speedway

27th

2nd

1st

+207

22

08/08/2009

Zippo 200

Watkins Glen International

7th

2nd

1st

+212

23

11/21/2009

Ford 300

Homestead–Miami Speedway

5th

1st

1st

+210

Green means the driver had to move
to the back of the field due to an engine change, a backup car or a
driver change.

Kyle Busch Foundation

According to the KBFoundation Mission Statement, The Kyle Busch
Foundation is dedicated to providing essential tools for less
fortunate children throughout the country. KBF will concentrate its
efforts on assisting organizations in fostering a safe environment
for children to live, learn and challenge themselves as well as
seeing that day to day needs are met. His foundation sponsors his
#51 late model which is driven by Alex Haase. Busch also has
personal sponsorship deals in place with NOS
Energy Drink and Electric
Visual, with both appearing on his late model at one time or
another.

During the 2008 season, Busch announced the "Kyle's Miles" program,
inviting consumers to go to www.dogsrule.com. Kyle's Miles is a
team up with Pedigree to help dogs
in shelters and breed rescue organizations.